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| 3270090832 | Abbasid caliphate | The Abbasid Caliphate was the third of the Islamic caliphates to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. | 0 | |
| 3270090833 | Fief | A fief (Latin: feudum) was the central element of feudalism and consisted of heritable property or rights granted by an overlord to a vassal who held it in fealty (or "in fee") in return for a form of feudal allegiance and service, usually given by the personal ceremonies of homage and fealty. | 1 | |
| 3270090834 | Byzantine empire | The Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire was the predominantly Greek-speaking continuation of the eastern part of the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. | 2 | |
| 3270090835 | Footbinding | Foot binding (also known as "lotus feet") was the custom of applying painfully tight binding to the feet of young girls to prevent further growth. | 3 | |
| 3270090836 | Caliphate | A caliphate is an Islamic state. It's led by a caliph, who is a political and religious leader who is a successor (caliph) to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. | 4 | |
| 3270090837 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great or Charles I, was King of the Franks who united most of Western Europe during the early Middle Ages | 5 | |
| 3270090838 | Crusades | The Crusades were military campaigns sanctioned by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. | 6 | |
| 3270090839 | Fujiwara | Fujiwara clan (藤原氏 Fujiwara-uji or Fujiwara-shi ?), descending from the Nakatomi clan and through them Ame-no-Koyane-no-Mikoto, was a powerful family of regents in Japan. | 7 | |
| 3270090840 | Hadith | a collection of traditions containing sayings of the prophet Muhammad that, with accounts of his daily practice (the Sunna), constitute the major source of guidance for Muslims apart from the Koran. | 8 | |
| 3270090841 | Holy roman empire | The Holy Roman Empire was a multi-ethnic complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806. | 9 | |
| 3270090842 | Horse collar | A horse collar is a part of a horse harness that is used to distribute the load around a horse's neck and shoulders when pulling a wagon or plough. | 10 | |
| 3270090843 | Investiture controversy | The Investiture Controversy, also known as the lay investiture controversy, was the most important conflict between secular and religious powers in medieval Europe. | 11 | |
| 3270090844 | Junk | old or discarded articles that are considered useless or of little value. | 12 | |
| 3270090845 | Koryo | Goryeo, also known as Koryŏ, was a Korean dynasty established in 918 by King Taejo | 13 | |
| 3270090846 | Li shimin | Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, personal name Li Shimin, was the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China, ruling from 626 to 649. | 14 | |
| 3270090847 | Movable type | Movable type is the system of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual letters or punctuation). | 15 | |
| 3270090848 | Neo-confucianism | "Neo-Confucianism" is the name commonly applied to the revival of the various strands of Confucian philosophy and political culture that began in the middle of the 9th century and reached new levels of intellectual and social creativity in the 11th century in the Northern Song Dynasty. | 16 | |
| 3270090849 | Papacy | the office or authority of the pope. | 17 | |
| 3270090850 | Seljuk turks | The Seljuq dynasty was a Turkish Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually adopted Persian culture and contributed to the Turko-Persian tradition in the medieval West and Central Asia. | 18 | |
| 3270090851 | Serf | an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate. | 19 | |
| 3270090852 | Shari'a | SHARIA (ISLAMIC LAW) Shari'a is an Arabic word meaning "path" or "way." | 20 | |
| 3270090853 | Shi'ites | The group now known as Sunnis chose Abu Bakr, the prophet's adviser, to become the first successor, or caliph, to lead the Muslim state. Shiites favored Ali, Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law. Ali and his successors are called imams, who not only lead the Shiites but are considered to be descendants of Muhammad | 21 | |
| 3270090854 | Song empire | The Song dynasty was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279. | 22 | |
| 3270090855 | Sunnis | The Sunni are the majority in most Islamic countries outside of Iran, Iraq, Yemen, and Bahrain. Sunna—translated variously as the "trodden path," "the way," "example," or "habitual practice"—refers to the example or path of the Prophet Muhammad and his followers. | 23 | |
| 3270092054 | Tang Empire | Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia, founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital, Chang'an. (p. 277) | 24 | |
| 3270092789 | Tributary System | A system in which, from the time of the Han Empire, countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states, acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China. (279) | 25 | |
| 3270093201 | Uighurs | Turkic empire of the steppes; flourished in eighth century CE | 26 | |
| 3270094021 | Umma | The community of all Muslims. A major innovation against the background of seventh-century Arabia, where traditionally kinship rather than faith had determined membership in a community. | 27 | |
| 3270095183 | Umayyad Caliphate | (661-750 CE) The Islamic caliphate that established a capital at Damascus, conquered North Africa, the Iberian Pennisula, Southwest Asia, and Persia, and had a bureaucracy with only Arab Muslims able to be a part of it. | 28 | |
| 3270096107 | Vassal | (n.) a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he or she owes allegiance; a subordinate or dependent; a servant; (adj.) subservient | 29 | |
| 3270097203 | Teotihuacan | first major metropolis in Mesoamerica, collapsed around 800 CE. It is most remembered for the gigantic "pyramid of the sun". | 30 | |
| 3270099859 | Chinampas | Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields. | 31 | |
| 3270100286 | Maya | Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics, astronomy, and development of the calendar. | 32 | |
| 3270101758 | Toltecs | Nomadic peoples from beyond the northern frontier of sedentary agriculture in Mesoamerica; established capital at Tula after migration into central Mesoamerican plateau; strongly militaristic ethic, including cult of human sacrifice. | 33 | |
| 3270102239 | Aztecs | Also known as Mexica, they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax. | 34 | |
| 3270103861 | Anasazi | A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings | 35 | |
| 3270104270 | Moche | Civilization of north coast of Peru (200-700 C.E.). An important Andean civilization that built extensive irrigation networks as well as impressive urban centers dominated by brick temples. | 36 | |
| 3270105498 | Wari | cautiously, with great care | 37 | |
| 3270106103 | Inca | God becoming human | 38 | |
| 3270108632 | Mit'a | 39 | ||
| 3270108633 | Mongols | A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire, living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan, linking western and eastern Eurasia. | 40 | |
| 3270110221 | Genghis Khan | Also known as Temujin; he united the Mongol tribes into an unstoppable fighting force; created largest single land empire in history. | 41 | |
| 3270111140 | Yuan Empire | 42 | ||
| 3270112200 | Golden Horde | 43 | ||
| 3270112201 | Tsar | 44 | ||
| 3270112604 | Ming Empire | 45 | ||
| 3270113180 | Zheng He | 46 | ||
| 3270113181 | Kamikaze | 47 | ||
| 3270114107 | Ashikaga Shogunate | 48 | ||
| 3270114133 | Ottoman Empire | 49 | ||
| 3270115612 | Yongle | 50 | ||
| 3270116501 | Ibn Battuta | 51 | ||
| 3270117236 | Delhi Sultanate | 52 | ||
| 3270118057 | Mansa Kankan Musa | 53 | ||
| 3270118058 | Dhow | 54 | ||
| 3270119226 | Swahili Coast | 55 | ||
| 3270119981 | Timbuktu | 56 | ||
| 3270120310 | Mali | 57 | ||
| 3270120991 | Three-field System | 58 | ||
| 3270121185 | Black Death | 59 | ||
| 3270108560 | Mit'a | 60 |
